so I am walking home from corner store with smokes and my ice tea
and I get to Auburn and Ninth there is a Volkswagen Passat with the driver’s side front wheel half cocked off the axle and the tire is peeled away
a little Mexican gentlemen runs across the street to check on driver
there is a young Russian dude in passenger seat
Mexican dude knocks on window the passenger gets out
he looks a little out of it
either shook up by accident or one too many beverages
passenger steps out and walks around to driver’s side try to get in and start the vehicle
assuming he is about to leave
completely forgetting about his front wheel
Mexican dude splits
passenger goes back to passenger side grabs a plastic bag full of shit and starts walking away
I decide to call 911
hey you got a vehicle here at Auburn and Ninth
homeboy just took off
ok we will get someone out there
meanwhile, while I am on the phone
the passenger comes back with no plastic bag
and again tries to get back in the vehicle to try and take off
again forgetting about his front wheel
911 operator asks for a description; since dude is right in front of me I give his description
yup yup he is about 5’8, burgundy shirt, Levi’s, he looks Russian
dude takes off again
I sit and wait, meanwhile I’m directing traffic
20 minutes later Police Department shows up
they roll up assume it’s my car
nope nope not me
I tell them the story
they don’t care about plastic bag or that homeboy took off
finally both PD take off to search for homeboy
leaving me to resume traffic duty
10 minutes more go by, a third PD shows up asks for ID
nope nope nope not me
meanwhile, one of the first two officers on the scene returns
said they got him, they are doing a sobriety test on him now
asks for my ID again
yup yup sure here you go
asks me if I saw him driving, nope only saw him in passenger side but I did see he had the keys and jumped into driver’s side to drive off two times but didn’t see if he had been driving at time of accident
told them again about plastic bag full of shit he carried off
that didn’t seem to concern them
ok seems like it would be evidence to me but what do I know
anyways one officer returns my ID and asks if the number I called 911 from is a good number to reach me
yup yup sure
ok have a nice day
walked home to file my report
—brian-anthony
Flommist Brian-Anthony is a former artist, craftsman and designer turned part time law student via YouTube and Google, works at a print shop, full time father, all around Good Samaritan, enjoys a fine sativa, reading and Arizona Green Tea. Copyright © 2015 Brian-Anthony. All rights reserved.
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